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Amy De’Ath
Amy
De’Ath studied American Literature with Creative Writing at the University of
East Anglia and at Temple University in Philadelphia. Now 24, she has just
finished an MA at University College London, and is working with Steve Willey to
set up Openned Press – an off-shoot of the London reading series. In the near
future she hopes to begin a PhD on lyric and sentiment in innovative poetry. Her
poems have appeared in Onedit, Past Simple, and OFF_Magazine, and she is
currently working on her first chapbook, The Highway Code.
But
This Is Your Quota (Part 2) I was with back arched a
little bleeding on
the lip,
possible scenarios arrived in black-lined
cartoon bubbles, warm
and strapped in bulbs they
were here and here but they
were hard to sell or proclaim or win, my
backside was frozen to the bed my ankles
ached but still
either these are my shoulders ebbing
or I’m in situ, about to sail
with all the bulbs, ill-informed as a
cartoon bubble but not working against my own
bones at
least; ill-informed but in formal dress, a June dress, a day gets longer and longer
and there’s nothing imminently
harmful here but a
prescient little sugar to
dose a
multitude of poor criminals another
aphoristic flex a
poem / palimpsest aphorisms anger
aphids aren’t
they. * How
far are you lyrically able to stretch in order to get a
decent seat on the precipice, to appreciate the scope
of this nomenclature? If
the participants are all trying to get some wear out of it where
none can get, if we all donned our p’s I wouldn’t be sitting here
(in front of you). Trying
not to notice the neckline of her blouse down song off
her shoulder totally, totally you
wouldn’t be averse to
a long drive. When
I would say it’s not my objective to
write your name on your behalf at
the bottom of our Xmas cards. But
it’s not crucial at all. But
prophetic as in mean-spirited is
he who turns primarily to correspondence to
dispel a kind (of) rumour. Who
isn’t awash with hues and dark out
to the island? So, I’m pointing the
prophetic finger- Did
you mean in a roman? in
around a romance? Roman, Wild
beasts or a simple houseplant would take you where you need to go but if
technicality’s required then join dots laboriously
join and put. Colour
backing in
her cheeks you’re
looking through the wrong they’re
in the right wing they’re,
my jewels they’re
in the glove box I left them there
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